Re evil ‘seed oils’. Reply to Eyrie So how do Japanese and Scandinavians (to name just a couple of examples)…
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Chev? wtf??
Is Lithuania sponsoring this war to the tune of almost half a trillion $s? Is Lichtenstein providing satellite drones’ targeting…
Heinlein went a bit nuts with the liberation of literature and his emergence as an SF superstar. His later novels…
So how do Japanese and Scandinavians (to name just a couple of examples) manage to live so long? Over the…
A little cool in Melbourne at the moment
It be the warmin, the global warmin.
Happy St Patricks Day all who are Irish especially descendants of convicts.
Fill up with Guiness and good Irish whiskey and talk shite and tell outrageous yarns.
If you’re a boring tit and don’t drink, fill ya guts with colcannon and black pudding.
Johannes Leak.
Ha, ha, ha. General Disaster Abalone.
This is one of Leak’s best ever.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Mark Knight #3.
Warren Brown.
Warren Brown #2.
<snort!!!>
Well done…I’ll pay that one… 🙂
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Bill Burr needs to go back to wanking in front of Sarah Silverman.
Al Goodwyn.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Sniffy!
Elizabeth is due for surgery. This place is digital family.
Steve, thanks for thinking of me. In fact they have delayed the surgery till Wednesday, so I have two more sleeps before the knife falls.
It’s annoying when they do that, but I guess others more needy have surgical priority. Private payment doesn’t trump real need.
So I hope it is not just for the surgeon’s golf day. 🙂
This delay explains why I have still been around to fight the Downton fight on the weekend thread this morning.
All done and dusted now. 🙂
Good luck Liz. Just keep in mind that you were warned about traipsing around cruise ships and now look what’s happened to you. Hope it’s a lesson to stay off these horrible contraptions forever.
All the best for Wednesday, Liz. Hope you’re back to your best soon after.
Strap In!
CJ Bolland – The Prophet (Original 1997)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/oopsie-too-late-el-salvador-president-mocks-judge/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/trump-administration-defiantly-tells-radical-judge-pound-sand/
And THAT’S how it’s done.
Rep. Brandon Gill Moves to Impeach Obama Judge James Boasberg for Blocking Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act
Looks like someone has decided to kick a certain Judges arse.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/rep-brandon-gill-moves-impeach-obama-judge-james/
…aaand the arse kicking continues…
AG Pam Bondi Files Emergency Motion with DC Circuit to Halt ‘Illegal Order’ by Obama-Appointed Judge Jeb Boasberg, Alleging Sabotage of Presidencyhttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/ag-pam-bondi-files-emergency-motion-dc-circuit/
Judge Merchan and his daughter: A million-dollar business at Trump’s expense.
https://gatewayhispanic.com/2025/03/judge-merchan-and-his-daughter/
And just to wrap it all up:
Activist Judges and the Overreach of Judicial Authority: A Case for Sedition and Treason
?https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/activist-judges-overreach-judicial-authority-case-sedition-treason/
You bet they do.
It looks like the Trump Administration has the Democrat Wreckers in a bind.
Their radical wing is pushing for Judicial Anarchy, but President Trump will – I think – take the opportunity to impeach multiple senior Judges.
Of course, the Democrats will double down.
I wonder if there’s a bag limit on Judges and other administrators at this time of the year?
This week is looking rather exciting.
The visual image of Trump and Vance triumphantly returning from the hunt with a bag full of judges, followed by their pack of hounds (doggies), set me cackling!
The Tories have made an offer that Nigel Won’t refuse. He’s a turncoat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq1jZUh9dFg
What is Nigel Farage up to? This latest gaffe is just another of his recent moves that just further damages Reform UK – his own party!
Rupert will start another party with Elon’s backing and he will have the 80% of regular voters who want to deport criminals (99% Reform voters) and Farage will loose.
Carney kills the carbon tax in Canada
Happened on Friday, IIRC. This is what was behind my statement yesterday contra Peterson that he flanked Poilievre from the right.
If Carney wins. It will be a signal to a large number of demons to ease to the centre. Just watch over the next 3 plus years.
He’s flanked him from the right here if he wins or loses.
As for Dems, they are largely already centre/ centre right on FP. How this plays out in immigration is open question.
Great picture…
Imagine the howls of outrage if Peter Dutton appeared on a Youtube channel hosted by a far-right Nazi supporting Jew hater?
But a few weeks, Abalone appeared on a Youtube channel hosted by a far-left, Nazi supporting and very skanky Jew hater. Did you hear any howls of outrage? No, you heard crickets.
Ho hum, the hypocrisy and double standards are never ending.
Too crazy to leave late on the old fred:
Law students at Macquarie University face the threat of failing a key exam if they perform an underwhelming acknowledgement of country or refuse to acknowledge traditional Aboriginal owners at all, in a move labelled “indoctrination” by Indigenous leaders.
The presentation is worth 30 per cent of the final course mark and students have been told the acknowledgement of country is one of the key five marking areas. The demand to perform a “thoughtful”, “culturally respectful” and “exceptionally well-written” ode to Aboriginal traditional owners at the start of an oral law exam is despite the course on “age and the law” having no direct relation to Indigenous matters.
Longstanding academic and founding chief executive of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation Simon Haines described assessing a compulsory acknowledgement of country as “dangerous”.
“The critical error here is the confusion of categories – the academic and the political activist,” Professor Haines said.
“Wherever you may stand on acknowledgement of country etc, the fact is that being obliged to make an acknowledgment statement as an assessable element in an academic process is basically shocking. Social justice activist projects should not be confused with an academic assessment project. And that’s what’s happening here.”
Professor Haines, an academic for more than 30 years, called on the university’s vice-chancellor, Bruce Dowton, to review it.
“I actually think the VC (of Macquarie University) should review this,” he said.
“It’s his job. If I was running a university, I would call them in and basically say you just can’t do this. It’s an academic process, not a political one.”
He said tertiary administrators were becoming too detached from the mainstream to notice the problem with the welcome to country test. “The metaphor that I use is it’s a bit like an ice flow that’s broken away from the mainland. The entire sector has shifted so far in this activist direction that they don’t even realise how far they’ve got from popular community opinion. This kind of thing is why universities are on the nose more than they even realise or acknowledge,” he said.
Conservative Indigenous leaders have criticised Macquarie University for the assessment. Opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said it showed universities were “more interested in indoctrination than genuine education”. Warren Mundine said he was “flabbergasted” and called it “pure indoctrination by a group of fanaticists”.
This latest controversy at Macquarie University follows 18 months of intense scrutiny on its anti-Israel academic Randa Abdel-Fattah. Her taxpayer-funded $870,000 research funding was recently suspended after she bragged about bending research rules.
University management conceded she had made “anti-Semitic” statements during the last 18 months but said it could not take disciplinary action.
The rubric for the “law reform campaign” presentation assessment, seen by The Australian, says a student would fail if they “did not present an acknowledgement of country or welcome to country at the beginning of the presentation or did so in a way that was inappropriate or did not comply with the instructions”.
“There is significant room for improvement and further thought required for this to be considered culturally respectful,” the rubric offers.
A high-distinction acknowledgement of country would see a student present “a brief, thoughtful, exceptionally well-written, culturally respectful acknowledgement of country or welcome to country at the beginning of the presentation”, the marking rubric reads.
The course guide also refers students to the university’s “Aboriginal cultural protocols” document. The document contains a table of terms that “are now considered offensive to Aboriginal Australians and provides appropriate alternatives”. Examples include “Aboriginal Australian people/s” instead of “Aborigine”, “Aboriginal Australians or Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples” instead of “Aboriginals”, “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples” instead of “ATSI”, and “Indigenous nations” instead of “nomadic tribes”.
Senator Nampijinpa Price said “mandating that students participate in what is arguably a reinvention of culture in order to attain a tertiary qualification is an indictment on our education system”.
“Australians are fed up with being made to feel like they are guests in their own country, and requirements like this only serve to confirm that our educational institutions have become more interested in indoctrination than genuine education,” the Northern Territory senator said.
“The Albanese government has allowed activist behaviour like this to take root in our schools and tertiary institutions.
“That is why a Dutton Coalition government will get our country back on track, and ensure universities are focused on core academic instruction and research, rather than political agendas, and to treating people on the basis of need rather than race.”
Mr Mundine, a prominent No vote campaigner during the voice to parliament campaign and unsuccessful Liberal candidate for the NSW seat of Gilmore, said universities had become “centres of indoctrination”. “It is a dangerous step,” he said. “What has that got to do with the actual course?
“We are training lawyers. At the end of the day, they’re going to use that legal knowledge and everything to make Australia a better place in business and in the general community, and within the legal profession and in politics.
“This is pure indoctrination by a group of fanaticists.”
Mr Mundine said the acknowledgement of country was a “nice and great idea that had been hijacked by activists”.
A Macquarie University spokesperson said late on Sunday: “An acknowledgment of, or welcome to country is a requirement of this assessment because it is relevant both to this specific task and to the overall learning outcomes of the unit, Age and the Law. This unit addresses Indigenous young people and their relationship with the legal system in Australia.
“Age and the Law comprises three assessments. This is the only assessment in this unit that requires an acknowledgment of, or welcome to country.
“An acknowledgment of, or welcome to country is not a requirement of all assessment tasks at the university, nor is this a requirement of all assessment within the Macquarie Law School.”
Oz
That has to lead to legal action against McQuarie – did the students give ‘informed consent’ before starting their degrees that political correctness would be marked, not just legal knowledge? Did McQuarie fraudulently represent their course as a ‘law degree’ when in reality its a ‘law-political correctness’ degree?
OK. I’ll play the game –
“Welcome to OUR Country. The end.”
Now give me a High Distinction for creativity, being succinct, to the point, etc, etc, etc,
Neither is correct. They moved around constantly in small familial (lineage) ‘hordes’, as described by earlier anthropologists, necessitated by the sparse carrying capacity of the land on which they hunted and gathered foods. They met in larger groups for rare ceremonies around occasional seasonal food sources, such as the appearance in one area of plentiful Bogan Moths. They had no wider political unity in these meetings and the small groups continually fought each other over women and food. They existed in an ongoing situation of petty raiding.
The glorifying of a simple social system living hand to mouth is to be deplored. It is untruthful nonsense. Traditional aboriginal culture had certain strengths to ensure its continuation, but it was hardly admirable nor political in civilised terms.
I actually like the concept of Bogan Moths, but I think it was the Bogong variety the indigenies went after.
Its a humiliation ritual, not academia.
Debase yourself white boy, dance, dance for us!!
Fresh from eviscerating brave men for doing terrible things under terrible circumstances, Paul Brereton is himself under fire for his management of Albanese’s signature National Anti-Corruption Commission.
Former senior beaks are queuing up to bag Brereton, on account of:
The irritated beaks who were happy to croak to the Unlinkable OZ:
But the NACC has performed as designed by the Prime Mollusc: senior public servants off scot free from criminal allegations over Robodebt and any review of the overnight award of Aussie Brinny’s payola lost to sight.
It is ALWAYS about the “SPILLAGE”.
Happy St Patricks Day!
And a shout out to Gab, our much missed four leaf clover Kitteh.
To be sure, to be sure.
Must have been a different Gab?
The one I am thinking of is definitely not Irish, though long time missing, years, if I am correct.
Hungarian, IIRC.
Yes, the Gab we miss these days was not Irish. I had the good fortune to spend an hour or so yakking with her one night when I gave her a lift home from the Lord Nelson. We had been at one of the Blair mob get togethers. Very interesting and lovely lady.
Much missed.
Gab’s gravatar was a four leaf clover. She changed it one St. Pats Day and it stuck.
That’s how I remember her.
One for navally inclined Cats:
US Starts to Build Submarine Presence on Strategic Australian Coast Under AUKUS (16 Mar)
Meanwhile more Collins class woes:
Upgrades to Collins-class submarines delayed (Sky News, 17 Mar)
A $5 billion plan to extend Australia’s Collins-class submarines has been left up in the air.
Will be diverted to making ‘green steel’ and blowing up power stations I expect
Well, it is a start. Personally, the more US naval staff at the WA base, the better. Also, can we please have some permanently stationed in Darwin – if they aren’t already there.
TOON ………..!!!
Well done and well deserved from a Long suffering ‘Tottering Hotspur’ supporter.
Gotta laff tho .. i’m old enuf to remember when the English Football League Cup (Carabao Cup) was a 7th rate, oft ignored, event ..
“course, that was before we lost in 2023 & now we’ve won it in 2025 .. LOL!
Ireland, the most rabid Israel and Jew hating country in Western Europe.
Ireland, where recently an Israeli businessman, sitting in a cafe, was spat on by Irish Jew haters.
Forgive me if I don’t and won’t wish wish anyone a ‘Happy St Patrick’s Day’.
Yup – they’re doubling down on their performance during WWII
While destroying their own society
100 years of screaming “Brits out” but never mentioned “Migrants in” once ……
spat on by Irish Jew haters
were they ‘Irish jew haters’ or ‘new Irish jew haters’?
I’ve seen the video. They were ‘Irish Jew haters“.
Reminded me of the shithole back in the good old days and the contrast with Norn Iron, where everyone knew words had consequences.
FISA is Foreign Intelligence Surveillance. This is the Judge who told the government to turn around planes deporting violent criminals. He belong in gaol himself.
@themarketswork
As many know, Judge Boasberg was a FISA Court (FISC) Judge. But it gets worse. He also reviewed James Comey’s memos prior to release in 2018 and oversaw release of Clinton emails in Judicial Watch case back in 2016.
Boasberg gave FBI Lawyer Kevin Clinesmith probation for lying to the FISC by fundamentally altering a CIA email that exonerated Carter Page. Boasberg appointed deep-stater Mary McCord as amicus curiae advisor to the FISA court—AFTER McCord played a material role in personally misleading the FISC in the Page FISA.
Boasberg was also involved in Ray Epps case, giving Epps probation and calling Epps and his wife “victims” of conspiracy theories. Finally, Boasberg took time out to personally attend Trump’s DC trial, seemingly just for the enjoyment of it…
An old school Marxist rabble-rouser gets it.
Reposted for excellence, from the OOT:
Ahahahaaa.
I have a mate of mine undergoing this unfortunate process at present. His dress sense has ‘improved’ beyond measure.
then she dumps him because he’s not responsive to her “needs” …..
He had a lucky escape.
There’s one benefit to all this. These people are really outing themselves.
@julie_kelly2
James Boasberg, along with 16 DC judges, signed off on the unlawful use of 1512c2–the corporate fraud obstruction statute–against J6ers.
He presided over 70 J6 cases, both guilty pleas and conviction at trial. In nearly every instance, Boasberg imposed prison time even for the petty offense of “parading” in the Capitol.
He sent 60-year-old Sandra Weyer, a woman from Pennsylvania who committed no violence on Jan 6, to 14 months in federal prison on the unlawful 1512c2 count.
After denying several defense motions including change of venue, Boasberg convicted Cynthia Ballenger after a brief bench trial of the 4 common misdemeanors. He then sent her to federal prison for four months.
He sentenced former NYPD officer Sara Carpenter to 22 months in federal prison on the unlawful obstruction count, nonviolent civil disorder, and misdemeanors.
I could go on (and might later.)
Boasberg with gusto threw the book at Americans exercising their 1A rights on Jan 6 then denied J6ers other constitutional rights to ensure convictions and imprisonment.
But now he’s going to bat for illegals suspected of ties to a dangerous foreign gang.
@WesternLensman
Tapper: Tren de Aragua is a murderous gang that operates in your state of Texas. Do you support the Trump admin using any tool available to remove them?
Crockett: “We can’t trust this administration to actually use a scalpel, but instead they love to use a butcher knife on things.”
“And so giving them this wide latitude to just kind of go across and just claim that anybody is anything is wrong.”
Democrats won’t support using the Alien Enemies Act to remove foreign terrorists.
Crockett is one of the stupidest Democrats.
And that is saying something.
Crockett by short nose. Sandy Bug Eyes gives her a run for the money.
The stupidest would have to be Maxine Waters.
Waters is unquestionably the most hideous in appearance and manner. Her ignorance is beyond compare.
She has also won the ‘Most Corrupt Member of Congress’ award at least 4 times.
She is also massively incompetent. In her 35 years in Congress she has managed to pass only three bills. A Haiti relief bill, a modification to the national flood insurance program, and the naming of a post office.
Crockett aspires to be her.
I thought it was an open field any day of the week.
Meme
@Bubblebathgirl
Trump personally thanked the President.
Judge Merchan and his daughter: A million-dollar business at Trump’s expense.
More threats to independent journalists
Meme
How on earth was she accepted for the pool!
@LauraLoomer
SCOOP
I have identified the reporter who hit President @realDonaldTrump in the face with a boom mic this week while he was speaking to the press on the tarmac.
Her name is Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka. She is the newly appointed White House reporter for @NPR and a massive Trump hater and LGBTQ advocate who once suggested during the 2024 campaign that Trump only spoke in Howell, Michigan because it has ties to the KKK.
Did she hit President Trump in the face on purpose?
RECEIPTS
That is an “interesting ” surname for young Danielle.
“Short Life”?
Brisbane’s never-ending homelessness battle has taken another twist, leaving as many questions as it has delivered answers.
The city’s camps will be shut down on Thursday and cleared out in a stunning directive by the Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner.
Mr Schrinner said council now knew the vast majority of those living in the camps – particularly at hotspots like Musgrave Park and Kurilpa Point near the Gallery of Modern Art — had been offered safe accommodation but had declined it.
Consequently, he said those living in the camps would be given 24 hours to move on.
After that council officers, supported by police, would move in and remove all the tents and other items.
Courier-Mail
@BreitbartNews
DEFSEC @PeteHegseth: “Peace through strength is back — The minute the Houthis say ‘we’ll stop shooting at your ships, we’ll stop shooting at your drones,’ this campaign will end.”
“But until then, it will be un-relenting.”
Peace through strength is back
Si vis pacem – parabellum
See also, from Sir Arnaud Amalric, “holy man”::
“Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius”
Video of the day:
The President of El Salvadore.
@nayibbukele
Today, the first 238 members of the Venezuelan criminal organization, Tren de Aragua, arrived in our country. They were immediately transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center, for a period of one year (renewable).
The United States will pay a very low fee for them, but a high one for us.
Over time, these actions, combined with the production already being generated by more than 40,000 inmates engaged in various workshops and labor under the Zero Idleness program, will help make our prison system self-sustainable. As of today, it costs $200 million per year.
On this occasion, the U.S. has also sent us 23 MS-13 members wanted by Salvadoran justice, including two ringleaders. One of them is a member of the criminal organization’s highest structure.
This will help us finalize intelligence gathering and go after the last remnants of MS-13, including its former and new members, money, weapons, drugs, hideouts, collaborators, and sponsors.
As always, we continue advancing in the fight against organized crime. But this time, we are also helping our allies, making our prison system self-sustainable, and obtaining vital intelligence to make our country an even safer place. All in a single action.
May God bless El Salvador, and may God bless the United States.
A better link
Democratic Party’s favorability hits record lows in two polls after 2024 losses
You know the end is nigh for net zero when the ABC runs an article admitting that Net Zero is an impossible goal. This article by Alan Kohler reminds me of articles that were written by some of the old communists hacks following the fall of the USSR and which continued for years to trumpet the wonders of the Soviet regime. The mental gymnastics and careful wording here aims to shift the narrative far enough away from the truth (i.e. that Climate Change caused by CO2 is and always was a scam and net zero was a political construct without scientific backing, impossible to measure and achieve) to protect themselves, the scammers and their vulnerable and stupid followers. This article aims to set the tone across the nation for dealing with the crumbling net zero narrative. ABC Pravda doing what it does best. A must read. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-17/climate-change-religion-trump-zeldin-epa-wind-back-rules/105057538
You watch or read Kohler? I wouldn’t p@ss down his mouth if his chest was on fire. A hopeless biased journalist well at home in the ABC.
Probably should attract more criticism than he does. Not from you obviously. His News segments carry all the weight of something from Annabel Crabbe.
snork!!!
I read him because he is pulled in by the ABC in times of lefty narrative crisis to write its way out of trouble. That he contradicts himself several times in the same article doesn’t bother him or the ABC audience. I think he has the art of double speak down pat. I wouldn’t piss on him either.
And thats without even realising that ‘net’ zero is a fraud – it means ‘on average’. It requires carbon fuel backups even if you can ‘net it out to zero’ via some accounting chicanery. You CANNOT eliminate carbon fuels, they have been part of human activity forever – wood fires probably being the oldest example.
They are actually trying to eliminate the key human technology of control of fire.
Yep. Really going back to nature there, aren’t they?
Uncooked, and red in tooth and claw.
Humans evolved with fire, cooking made more food edible and contributed to our greater brain size. It allowed expansion into different environments and was also defensive at night against predators, and warm in a cooling climate.
Kohler asks the rhetorical question: Why have we failed to limit warming?
And answers it:
Obviously.
Personally, I find it surprising that a few paras prior to those sensational revelations, Kohler had noted a rather simpler fundamental reason:
Just a wacky, way out suggestion here, governments don’t think that scale of value destruction is actually a practical idea. They talk big games, but nobody believes in climate change salvation enough to vaporise their social economy (even if that were possible).
A little virtuous wounding – a different matter.
Disclaimer: as a paid up member of Big Fossil, unless I pointed this out, I would be found ‘suicided’, zipped into a sports bag full of scorpions.
“requiring affluent economies to spend 20 to 25 per cent of their annual GDP on the transition”.
And this in a world where few countries can even keep their spending within their actual receipts, much less cut spending to the point where 1/4 of GDP could be redirected.. Most spending is ‘baked in’ to meet interest payments and entitlements. Diverting 25% to the green dream would require ‘WW2’ level austerity at home, and of course, economic productivity will *fall* precipitously once resources are directed into the self destructing of our existing energy systems
An interesting take on the role that Kohler is performing, Mem.
I think it is important for us to keep up with what is being said more widely, to see the left at their game, and then for us to keep ahead of it, rather than just rely on echo chambers for our information, useful and confirming as our usual sources may be for us.
Thankyou for feedback Lizzie. I try to read across the political spectrum for this reason. Good luck with your forthcoming surgery.
Wasn’t Kohler one of the spruikers for every thing concerning unreliable renewables?
They have an interesting system where the new PM is not a member of parliament and has never held any elected office.
A new Canadian PM
Technically possible here, limited to 3 months.
Section 64 of our constitution
Yes, I’ve said here that if NT Aboriginal politics trumps Jacinta Price’s return the Senate, and the LNP forms government, she could, after a policy reform package for the Aboriginal sector is settled, be appointed a Minister to make the critical decisions.
The best of Ireland were transported or forcibly removed. Scotland ditto.
I can’t deny my heritage, degraded as the place has become. Like Australia, Ireland is going through a wicked, shameful stage. Once out of the cycle, they seem to shrug it off as if it was unimportant or never happened. Our pollies will probably do the same.
St George’s Day will be coming up at the end of April. I wonder if Starmer will outlaw the parading and waving of the St George cross? Wouldn’t put it past him.
Tend to agree. Scotland is now a basket case where every political party is left of centre including the pretend conservatives. Busily destroying the place and its heritage while saying they carry the traditions of Wallace. What a joke.
A Greek friend tells me that the best Greeks migrated after the war and left the sh#t behind.
We met one old shepherd in Scotland who wasn’t having a bar of the climate change luvvies. So some good ones still remain.
“Once out of the cycle, they seem to shrug it off as if it was unimportant or never happened.”
And there will be a multitude of catchy songs “celebrating” the event, within a week.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
March 17, 2025 9:25 am
Awaiting for approval
John Hancock reflects on the estranged relationship with mother Gina RinehartGina Rinehart’s son unloads about the bitter battles within Australia’s richest family, the ‘non-existent’ relationship with his mother and how some of her investments are ‘toilet flushes’.
Does he like the money though?
perhaps if he had the grace and lacked the greed to wait until he was old enough to access his trust this estrangement would never have happened.
Plus all that Treasure lost through expensive litigation.
As with the Bond – SGIC case it represents a valuable transfer of wealth to the Perth legal community where it can be used to buy Koppers logs for the Margaret River winery getaway property.
As an aside, a mate used to run into Gina in the lift when he was renting in Crawley after being left with nothing after a divorce. I’m sure they both abhor the idea of a shared lift these days. I think he picks up lots of work from Roy Hill so it wasn’t a complete loss.
“John Hancock”. An unfortunate name. 😀
Most Cats would be familiar with the US meaning of the name. 😀
Seems appropriate for him.
Aren’t Gina’s children all Rineharts? Has he also denied his father?
A family that changes its surname with each generation is always going to struggle.
Try telling that to the Saxe-Coburg-Mountbatten-Windsor-FitzHewitt-Sussexes.
More Trumpening!
The US has deported over 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to be held in a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador after US President Donald Trump controversially invoked wartime legislation to expel them.
El Salvador’s President, Nayib Bukele, said 238 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and 23 members of the Salvadoran gang MS-13 had arrived and were in custody.
The deportations took place despite a US federal judge granting a temporary suspension of the expulsions order, apparently as planes were already headed to El Salvador.
Herald-Sun
Good. I am glad they just got on with it.
What? .. and legal niceties about the rule of law be f***ed?
It will be picked over to death. They will be the best defended deportees in history, although there would be a few here too I suspect. The timing might need some work but I’m not losing any sleep.
Losing 20 years of your life in detention or Nauru is a different question.
Trump Air!
Sure, that is until the Hootie Tooties find a friendly judge in the DC court system who issues an injunction and stops the bombing. Anyone can get an injunction against the administration in a DC court.
The infestation of judiciaries by activist wannabe politicians too gutless to run for office has become a plague throughout the Western world.
Separation of Powers has evolved from the Magna Carta to deal with it. On the whole it works as well as any human system could be expected IMO. There are instances of overreach on all sides. The USA is perhaps the most visible but our own High and other courts are not immune. Requires constant vigilance.
I thought it was the other way around, leftie politicians appoint activist judges as a safety measure and another arrow in their quiver.
Test.
Just working out user registration.
From the Spectator Australia – Part of the Post –
Dimitri Burshtein and Peter Swan
15 March 2025
“Australians are frequently reminded that we are facing ‘the most complex and challenging strategic environment since the second world war’. Yet given recent exercises by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), Australia does not seem anywhere near prepared. It was left to a Virgin Airlines pilot to report live firing since apparently Australia lacks the capability to monitor potentially hostile warships in our backyard.
The primary role of a military is to deter, engage in, and win wars. When it comes to deterrence, former US Strategic Command chief General Kevin Chilton noted that deterrence the combination of will and capability. The Australian defence establishment’s lack of awareness and response to PLAN’s exercises underscores Australia’s weak deterrence posture, highlighting both a deficiency in will and a shortfall in capability. Rather, the Australian military seems to excel in the bureaucratic stakes.
In a classic episode of Yes, Prime Minister, PM Jim Hacker is shocked to learn that the Royal Navy has more admirals than ships. Never want for reality to be outdone by comedy. The Royal Australian Navy has approximately 51 commission vessels and 78 admirals (one-star officers or higher).
This administocracy is not limited to the Royal Australian Navy. The Australian Army has 91 starred officers and the Royal Australian Air Force 69. In toto, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) has 238 starred officers for 57,000 active-duty personnel. This equates to approximately 1 starred officer per 240 ADF members.
In contrast, the US military comprises approximately 1.3 million active-duty personnel. To lead the US forces, there are approximately 650 starred officers or approximately one starred officer per 2,000 soldiers. Australian soldiers, it seems, require eight times more oversight and administration than do soldiers serving in arguably the most lethal military in the world.
It is not just the number of starred officers. The Chief of the Australian Defence Force earns approximately $1.1 million. The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff earns approximately AU $420,000 per annum (US $260,000). Unless there is some unique Australian way of military organisation, it is unclear why the head of the Australian military, who oversees a force one-twentieth the size of the US military, earns two and a half times the salary of his American counterpart.”
General Disaster Abalone, are you up to the job of PM? And Marles, are you up to your job.
The first job in any war is to root out all the ‘peace generals’
True, the trouble is how many grunts they take with them.
You mean like Angus Campbell who reckons that there is no place in the army for “exceptionalism”?????
BTW I asked Richard Marles (at a Sydney Institute meeting) what does this mean for the respect towards our VCs? He spluttered that Campbell meant that they should be more like a football team – or words to that effect!
Isn’t the Chief of Army supposed to be chosen as an “exceptional” leader?
Oh, hang on, Morrison, Campbell, et al! I will show myself out, simply noting that at least he lived up to his claim. He is an unexceptional excuse for a soldier.
Epic fail by canbra. Again.
Try and keep up!
It’s not General Disaster Abalone.
It’s General Disaster Abalone VC and Bar, KC, AM. (Knighthood pending)
This place resembles North Korea in several ways…
The primary role of a military is to deter, engage in, and win wars
To paraphrase Conan….. ‘the role of the military is to crush your enemies before lunch, then to enjoy his cattle and his women (in that order)’
With the sun about to set in northeast Florida, Rory McIlroy and J.J. Spaun (tied on -12) will return tomorrow for a Monday playoff in the Players Championship.
Another offshore windmill disaster.
Germany’s First Offshore Wind Farm To Be Dismantled After Just 15 Years Of Operation (16 Mar)
Seventy percent of their revenue was the subsidy! And that is for a wind farm in probably the best location, since it was the first one built. I suspect it is clapped out anyway after 15 years of pounding by waves, and that will’ve influenced the decision to pull the plug. It really does say that Blackout Bowen’s offshore wind pipedream is never going to happen.
Imagine the scale and complexity of the offshore logistical operation to remove and replace the blades and turbines.
A small charged at the base of the pilon, a nice habitat to local fishes to boot.
Morning email from an investment bank that I receive.
They’re trying everything from the income side, ie. to stoke demand. Until they come to terms with around US$18 trillion of bad debt floating around the economy, it’s all for nothing. It’s japan all over again. The CCP can post anything they want like GDP growing at 5%. No one will believe them.
A bit of perspective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kFHNb1R74s
A terrible tale of Jew hatred and murder by the same people currently being released in a prisoner exchange with Hamas.
I don’t know about perspective, it gives me a white hot anger.
In case you’ve forgotten, Rory Stewart is the Tory intellectual who’s neither.
Elon is wrong to think that people incapable of violence are harmless. They may be malignant, back-biting, vicious shits like Rory Stewart and capable of doing much damage.
This is why I love the place. Most Americans are insane crazy fcks.
JC we are booked on the Queen Anne to go to Los Angeles from Sydney in March 2026. We haven’t made any further plans, but America always turns up something interesting to do and to see.
We’re in NY around May/June. Drop in 🙂
Cut out the cruise and just fly to LA.
We love America, except for the west coast. Except for you, JC, I think LA is just the pits.
Yes.
Outstanding.
Global boiling in action.
Global Warming Researchers Rescued From Snow (16 Mar)
You’d think after such things they’d start to wonder. But no, they never seem to.
In the UK, rape gangs are OK, pictures of women sans hijabs not so much
@CitizenFreePres
Why the Democrat party is trying to destroy Elon Musk.
Answer: Fear, simple fear of discovery of the extent of their corruption.
The ironic thing is that St. Patrick was born in Britain –
“Patrick was born in Britain of a Romanized family. When he was 16 years old, Irish raiders tore him from the villa of his father, Calpurnius, a deacon and minor local official, and carried Patrick into slavery in Ireland.”
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Patrick
British? Did he eat kippers for breakfast?
As he was from a Romanized family, then maybe it was olives with garlic bread. As well as wine.
No Pommy muck.
No Poms in Britain then Only Britons (Celts), Picts and Romans.
Shakespeare’s birthplace to be ‘de-colonised’ over fears his success ‘benefits the ideology of white European supremacy’
Britain continues to trash itself. Dons are evil. BIRM.
If there ever was such an ideology, it has long since ceased to exist.
The ideology of Islamic supremacy, on the other hand …
Now you know what happened during the Dark Ages – it wasn’t dark, just the culture got wiped out.
WATCH: This Is the Strongest Case for Trump’s Tariffs I’ve Heard Yet
The other day I got to thinking about that very thing.
For something to be “net” it implies you are using some of the “negative” energy which is offset by “positive” energy to arrive at zero.
If your energy demand is 100 units, and you use 15 units of “negative” energy (coal and gas) you generate 115 units of “positive” energy to offset to net zero.
So you generate 130 units of energy against a demand of 100.
A completely nonsensical concept.
Welcome to Country is killing the planet.
Mag: ‘Email signatures are harming the planet & could cost people their lives — it’s time to stop using them’ – Adding ‘gender pronouns in emails…may contribute to the premature deaths of one person a year’ (16 Mar)
Pronouns too are killing the planet! I am about 99% sure this isn’t satire, he really means it. He’s an IT professor with interests in solar energy from his bio. I wonder what he would think about a smoking ceremony?
LOL!
What has he been smoking is the question? Must be good stuff.
Memes must be absolutely killing the planet.
What about those smoking ceremonies by Hippies in the late 60s and early 70s last Century.
Pot smoking ceremonies that is, along with a Love -In.
Emissions anyone?
Pronouns too are killing the planet. Split infinitives will finish it off.
Great, so Albo says we will stand with Ukraine “for as long as it takes”. Might be helpful if he could tell us what “it” looks like. No young Ukrainian men left to fight? Kyiv a pile of rubble? The start of world war 3? Come on Albo, as long as it takes to what?
Well said. Put some parameters around it, Abalone.
You can’t, so shut up about things you don’t understand.
If I recall UNIFIL has been in Lebanon for more than forty years. And they were useless.
Uh oh. Does Elon know where this line of thinking leads?
He’s on the One World Government track.
Hopefully he has made a miscommunication here and he just means the way the USA treats people and other countries.
Week 8
Bessent interviewed Sunday morning US time.
More and more I’m getting the impression that this is an administration focused on the middle class. I’d describe it more as a Main Street administration with its eye on raising incomes. It’s not inimical towards Wall Street but it’s not its focus.
In other words its an income administration rather than asset appreciation focused one.
If real incomes begin to rise. If living costs go down, the markets will follow along.
The interview is here.
Famous Fords continued
ZZ Top Eliminator car.
1933 Ford coupe. Chev 350 V8.
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/zz-top-eliminator-hot-rod.htm
Sharp Dressed Man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRHBLwpASw
If you sound system in your car is any good, you can try this.
this is a better version
Visited Australia back in the day – a friend who arranged to bring the 33 here ran the old SA Hot Rod show as it was then called, and drove it around Adelaide one night.
The first couple of ZZ Top albums get a regular airing. This era, less so.
Chev? wtf??
Apparently an underlying logic behind shipping the gang thugs to El Salvador is terror.
Previously gangbangers had nothing much to fear from being apprehended. But now, the idea of spending 20 years duck walking dressed in boxers and singlets while spending twelve hours a day in the prison workshop has many of the scum either running or considering a different lifestyle.
It must be a great strategy because it has the BBC reaching stratospheric levels of hysteria. Sweet to watch.
I have seen some Yewchubes of the El Salvador system, one in particular from a young man who was given a full tour. There are multiple levels of incarceration. The felons who have committed lesser crimes are being comprehensively rehabilitated, taught to read and write and trained in basic behaviour, then allowed to learn basic skills, particularly in construction, all with the aim of bettering their own country. The worst of the worst are literally duck walking. Bukele is very popular but of course there are human rights concerns.
When you don,t behave in a humane manner, you lose those rights.
Any chance we can bring it in here?
Might drive the prison population down by deterring lotsa crims.
Win win for everyone.
No chance at all “gross violations of ‘ooman rites”.
I seem to recall that wasn’t an issue mandating covid shots for the general population outside prison.
Inside prison however…
It’s possible that Hamas launched their genocidal attack when they did because they feared this system would render all their bootleg missiles and fire balloons irrelevant.
Katz confirms Iron Beam defense laser to be operational within several months (JPost, 16 Mar)
Of course by the time it is operational they won’t need it anymore, since Hamas will have been obliterated and Hezbollah severely reduced and cut off from supply from Iran because of the Sunnis now running Syria. But I am sure the IDF can think of a few things to do with it, once it’s up and running.
Mosquito and fly control?
And I’m not being flippant with that – invading bees – if they can be distinguished from others -? wing beat rate? – would help honey/pollination efforts in the agricultural sector immensely.
Done in David Brin’s “Earth”.
I’m a bit hit or miss with David Brin’s work, but one of my all time favourite SciFi novels is The Uplift War. I must read it again.
I liked The Practice Effect too, which is silly but a fine “what if” novel.
‘Eon’ and Stephen Baxters ‘Evolution’.
Thanks Eyrie – I knew I’d gotten the idea from somewhere, just couldn’t remember where.
As long as the power draw causes blackouts in the Pallyweirdies territory every time its used.
“Ho hum, the hypocrisy and double standards are never ending.”
It’s not hypocrisy nor double standards.
It’s always and ever about power – they are in charge and you are not, so they can do as they please. When you are in power and they are not, you abuse your power (which they NEVER do).
You are “on the wrong side of history” you see, while they are on the right side of it. Hence whatever they do is good, and whatever you do is bad. Therefor, ipso facto, their violence is speech, while your speech is violence.
I’m not saying it makes sense, just that it is their justification.
Tranny terrorist.
Trans Tesla vandal – who allegedly threw Molotov cocktails at cars – lives with mum and calls herself ‘baby’: sources (Sky News, 17 Mar)
I might’ve made a couple of edits for clarity. His photo is exactly as you will have imagined.
If he’s still living with mum at age 42 maybe she will pay for all the damage.
Unless their strategy has changed since Biden, I’m not sure the current round of strikes against Yemen will yield anything different.
The strategy has changed. Trump is going after the senior leaders. Reports suggest he got several of them, although there’s an obvious difficulty confirming that.
How exactly do you know where they are? Wasn’t that the problem with Saddam? Where is he?
I’m repeating the reports I read this morning, which is why I mentioned the difficulty of confirmation of the US claim.
However I point out that Trump is just carrying out the same strategy that Israel has been so successfully doing to the Hamas and Hezbollah senior leadership.
I could probably go find the reports, but it’d take a lot of time. I suppose we’ll find out as new Houthi talking heads magically replace the old ones.
That strategy seems to work pretty well on keeping ISIS quiet.
In fact they just got the Chief of Global Operations for ISIS with a precision airstrike the other day.
I’m guessing that they aren’t getting a flood of CVs from eager applicants to replace him.
And yet Jolani was left alone in Idlib.
Which did the reports mention?
No names but three was the number I saw. And the targets look to be salubrious homes in Sanaa. As I said I’d have to dig to find the reports, since I read twenty or thirty sites each morning. It’ll be reported somewhere if you want to chase the claims up.
It wasn’t al Houthi or the Armed Forces Spokesman, they’ve both made statements since.
Australian news and politics live: Greens announce policy push seeking four-day work week, without pay cut
From the West Australian. Words fail me, they honestly do.
I’ve never heard of a Greenie working more than 1 day a week so how are they going to work 4 days a week.
As for a Policy for Australia, it won’t work. Ever heard of Productivity?
And the Greens are trying to do a deal with Laybore for the Feral Election and a hung Parliament where they can create the most damage ever.
The Greens think that money grows on trees.
Madness.
Smelly hippies.
How often should I wash my exercise clothes? (MedXpress, 16 Mar)
Here’s who she is…
There you go, even RMIT fashion academics have a role in saving the planet. I wonder how many yummy grants she is getting to write tripe like this?
Fire them all. Bulldoze the buildings. Salt the Earth.
Harsh – but fair.
aaargh! I wear everything once, then wash. Except for jeans, if they haven’t had much use involving sweat or dirt, I will wear them again tomorrow.
Sports gear! sheesh. When I was doing Judo, my suit was washed “every time”, sweet and fresh for the next day of training.
At the club there were many adults who threw their suits into their gear bag, then left them in the car and wore them again next training session.
You soon smelt who you didn’t want to train with. Mostly blokes I will add.
Cats here are always whining about women yet, we are, as a rule the fresh, clean, and sweet smelling ones. 😀
Many of the children same, only you blamed the parents of course. A lot of the kids smelt like pee. yeerrk.
The ladies are complementary to their blokes who can from time to time use a little civilising. Without women, men would live like bears with furniture.
What is this furniture you speak of?
Milk crates, bricks, lengths of wood, the floor.
Sounds like my first house.
A clean tshirt, underwear, socks, every day. Jeans – wear for two days.
If I can smell them so can everyone else.
Shower every day – unless I’ve done jack shit all day, and tomorrow I’ll mow the lawn.
But I like the simile:
“Men are bears with furniture.”
Would make a great shirt slogan, Winston.
Ferkin academics, trying to sidestep the obvious degeneracy of wimmin wearing crack-tight aactive wear on the civil street.
In Griffith (NSW) I have not seen that to be a problem.
That’s me in that boat. I remember it well. The day started overcast but cleared. The fish were biting and there a couple of dusky maidens skinny dipping at the bottom of the gentle rapids.
What happened next?
Nothing, he fell out of the boat as he had become so excited. When he swam to the women and tried to introduce himself, they caught sight of his saggy y-fronts and ran off screaming!
Not cute owls then. Cute owls would never run off screaming.
Snigger.
Are you the little man in the boat?
Sounds more like he was hoping to meet a couple.
Top Ender,
you might have better facts that what I’ve gleaned from ChatGPT, but it notes Australia’s military “capabilities” as:
19 days worth of petrol reserves.
A mate of mine whom I haven’t seen in years and now works as a “strategist” for our DoD told me yesterday that our frigates can’t even make it to Cocos Islands with needing refuelling and an accompanying “replenishment ship.”
Laughable.
Consider China:
Given how many I see broken down on the side of the Bruce Highway… Makes the old Acco F1 I went down Bulli pass on( pulling the handbrake up the whole time, my driver pumping the brakes for all they were worth ) look positively reliable.
Looks a bit odd.
No mention of tanks?
There are more patrol boats than that.
Last time I looked there were nine operational frigates.
To get to Cocos is within range of a frigate from Sydney. They can do about 11,000 k’s before refuelling.
They just gave a large bunch of them to Ukraine…
The ones about to be replaced with newer models?
Do we have solar powered electric tanks already? Or very long extension leads.
Top Ender – my mate’s “facts” (?) told me an Australian frigate can’t make the journey there as it won’t have enough to get back???
There’s no refuelling options at Cocos…
True story?
Dunno about Cocos, but why would you go there in one hop from Sydney, say, and not refuel in Darwin? Warships generally do that wherever they can – no captain wants to be running with 20%.
I’m told reliably that our 6 subs are tied up at Garden Is due to lack of crews. We can’t even put 1 to sea at moment.
Crewing has been a problem since they were built.
Out main military asset is $1 trillion of renewables. The chunks will land, look at the stupid things and die laughing.
Heheh.
That is funny.
But seriously.
Australia’s main military asset is the ANZUS treaty and the US Navy 7th Fleet moored at Yokosuka.
Ugh so it’s looking like the Greens will hold the balance of power in WA’s upper house…
The Australian electorate is brain dead.
…and deserves everything it gets.
Balance of power only matters if the two main parties can’t work out a deal.
That’s how I like my food reviews.
Short, sharp and accurate.
Trump is making Demonrats go fossil:
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1901342361420198280
Democrat Senator Mark Kelly shows off his new gas-guzzling Chevy Tahoe after selling his Tesla to protest Elon Musk. “Here I am with my new ride Chevy. Good old Chevy Tahoe here in Washington, D.C got one of these in Tucson as well.”
Zinger:
Mark Kelly rather famously is an ex-astronaut.
Wonder if he put his trust in DEI hire in space.
Paywalled:
Opinion | We Were Badly Misled About Covid – The New York Times
But an interesting “turn around” from the NYT…
Just received notification that our special saver electricity plan will run out in April and that we will be put on a new plan for the same supply that will cost an extra $528.00 per year for the first 12 months not allowing for price increases which may occur. I will try to negotiate a better deal. Haven’t heard from gas yet but given what I’ve read it will likely go up even more. Not happy Jan!
Talk to Blackout Bowen about cheaper electrickery. A $500 rebate coming your money in the March 2025 Feral Guv’ment Budget, Getting your own tax money/borrowed money as a ‘rebate’.
LOL.. LayBore Accounting.
The claims and counter claims related to Wombatgate throws up another opportunity to say that allowing people to keep native animals as pets would be a way to avoid extinction. This is a verifiable, nay, self-evident assertion.
We saw the fuss over a pet magpie as well – those people nearly lost custody.
We have a ridiculous situation where deadly poisonous snakes are protected even though in many areas they are at near plague numbers. But try and keep native animals and you risk the law coming down on you like a tonne of ambulance chasers.
Better still, raise them for meat. There’s no shortage of cows which are delicious.
I am not sure but I suspect wombat might be a bit gamey.
So the CFMEU is still engaged in corrupt practices and women bashing, even under the admin of Mark Irving KC.
Hardly surprising.
Victoria Police operation announced into alleged ongoing CFMEU underworld infiltration of construction industry – ABC News
This one sounds like revenge against Labor, who in August put the CFMEU into administration. The timing (just before the election announcement) is interesting.
I think, given the billions poured into CFMEU projects, it has the potential to be one of Australia’s largest government scandals since the Khemlani loans.
There was talk about seed oils a week or so ago.
Here’s the story with references, proper studies etc.
https://www.malone.news/p/do-seed-oils-cause-heart-attacks
We dropped seed oils some years ago. Only use virgin olive oil now – and Australian brands. A friend had an olive grove years ago and had learned the trade OS but reckons process used by some Italian brands to purify the oil leads to an adulterated product.
Ditto. The other oils I use for cooking are coconut oil (high smoke point) and butter.
That’s handy to know – I went Olive oil – no seed oils a year or so ago.
Have no idea what effect it has on me, but I can brag about it to my family and it shuts them up.
So how do Japanese and Scandinavians (to name just a couple of examples) manage to live so long?
Over the years, we have been told that everything from sugar, salt, animal fats, carbs, to the latest bogey, seed oils, are killing us. Yet, overall, people keep living longer.
Me, I am with Yogi Bear. An apple pie is much more attractive than foraging for nuts and berries.
The endless search for the magic bullet food poison du jour is wildly unscientific, but makes a lot of money for food entrepreneurs.
That huckster, Maggie Beer (who happens to sell olive oil) advocates using it for everything, including frying chips. That’s all very well if money is no object, plus the best temperature for good chips is more like that of peanut oil, or even safflower oil.
As I have said before, dietary ‘science’ is rivalled only by astrology.
Wife and I both shopped this morning. She went to Coles, I went to Aldi. We both bought frozen beans. Hers were product of Australia, 825g for $4.90. Mine were packed in France from imported product, 1kg for $2.79. I doubt there will be any difference in quality. I know this isn’t new but can someone smarter than me tell me how we get out of this mess.
You’ll have to get a new wife.
Just shop at Aldi and don’t vote for Major Disaster Abalone’s Mob. Or the Green Blob Mob or the Teal Cult Mob.
Then cross your fingers.
And blast off.
Only buy one lot of beans?
packed in France from imported product = Chinese
A reminder to all Cats to turn all the lights, and devices, on, on Saturday night.
Join the Biggest Hour for Earth | Earth Hour
Of course, it’ll cost you a pretty penny but worth it.
I can burn a heap of green wood and belch heaps of smoke into the sky.
I have a stack of old gidgee wood I use during the winter, + a bit of dead tree and cardboard boxes to burn.
Thanks for the reminder.
Can anyone identify the ten idiots pictured in this story who paid $10K each to have dinner with Elbow?
Anthony Albanese’s $100,000 dinner with super donors at Sydney’s Aria restaurant as Aussies struggle to get by | The Nightly
They couldn’t pay me to have dinner with him.
There is a very, very, very long list of others me included. I could easily spend the $10,000 on something else. Like a nice holiday.
Or beer.
For punters with ten grand to spare on Abalone chewing, they dress very badly.
A true Man of the People.
It’s the modern version of bribery. They obviously want indulgences, favors, subsidies etc if the liars are re elected. I’m sure most of the wouldn’t have anything to do with a mediocrity like him otherwise.
As I recall Dutton was able to pull $20k.
Another great PR move from his tin-eared advisors.
I found this channel prior to Alfred @12k subs. Now it is close to 100k in just over a month.
Why? No fear-mongering BS you get with the BOM who tries to link the climate scam with every weather event.
—–
WeatherWatchTV:
Australia: Thunderstorms & downpours across the nation next 7 days
A great find.
Phar Lap
Max Merritt
John Clark
Rusty
et. al.
NZ weather bloke (pending).
I’ve been expecting it – ants have been getting inside the last couple of days.
Houthi media is reporting they have hit the US SS Truman with ballistic missiles.
False, fake? Dunno.
(They’ve previously reported sinking the entire US armada so I’m leaning toward no, but is breaking “news”)
A different commentor is saying Houthis launched 18 missiles and drone at SS Truman but none were successful.
They are just putting it on the defensive. Late last year they got one ballistic 200m away from carrier Truman. That’s about a second away from a successful strike.
Thanks DB
It appears the Houthi reporting is tosh.
It’s hard to determine unless you have eyes on the ship. And the reports commenced yesterday.
The Arleigh-Burkes are very adept at shooting down what the Houthis put up, and I recall there’re three in USS Truman’s task force. The US should build more of them.
So far the tally is Egyptian cargo ships 1 : 0 Houthi missiles.
Is there a problem with Michael Smith’s blog? I can’t see any comments, I keep clicking on them but nothing happens, on any article.
Same for me Crossie.
And no updates since Sunday, yesterday.
Same with me.
Michael had the same problem about a week, ten days ago.
Loads up for me, but different format.
Don’t know why, but Smith will not accept my comments. I have stopped trying.
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Reply to Johnny Rotten
No Pommy muck.
That’s how I like my food reviews.
Short, sharp and accurate.
Historical stuff – No Poms in Britain then.
Only the Britons (Celts), Picts and Romans.
They all had their own muck,
Poms invented fish and chips. Probably their sole magnificent culinary achievement.
There’s a hole in the wall establishment not too far from the Cafe that does awesome fish and chips. Very cheap too. Yum!
Bruce,
the Portugese invented fish’n’chips.
The poms perfected it, for a while. 😀
Oi how can the wiki be wrong?? Unthunkable!
Anyway the Portuguese wouldn’t just leave it as fish and chips, it would have all sorts of amazing spices and stuff.
Wiki is full of rubbish. There is no independent verification process.
The Portugese also introduced dipping food into batter and frying it, to the Japanese.
Of course the Japanese then turned it into that exquisite delicacy, Tempura.
Katsudon. Karaage. Yumm
Actually, the first fried fish with chips started in Portugal. Learnt about that on an SBS Ch 33 cooking show recently.
And then, the idea migrated to ‘Pomgolia’ somehow. Could have been by the prevailing winds or seagulls. They didn’t say or I have forgotten.
Cassie
this is why I think you need to be careful around these cnuts:
Why did the kidnapping of a Jewish man in the UK receive relatively little coverage?
Sadly.
But if someone even accidentally touched a hijab on a crowded train, the screeches would be heard beyond Mars.
And no one mentions the Marxist/Islamic nexus?
But, ‘Islamophobia.’ from our leaders.
“And now for something completely different:”
Can anyone name a single people that, upon defeating their adversaries, just “flippantly” decided to go spend 40 years in a desert?
It doesn’t seem like a very logical thing to do.
Technically it wasn’t them that defeated their enemies.
I’ve mentioned Thutmose son of Amenhotep III a few times. He never got a burial and his younger brother Ankhenaten got an extreme case of monotheism after he inherited the throne…
Starship Troopers comes to the big screen again! Hurrah!
Neill Blomkampf being a Saffer of a certain age has seen both compulsory national service, and a reasonably functional democracy be taken over by the bombs-n-communism ANC, so I sincerely doubt he’ll make the same spurnious undergraduate slop that Verhoeven served up.
Plus, with Weta studios, he’s proven a wunderkind of special effects, so the mech suits are gonna be lit!
He did District 9 and Chappie, and intends to hold closely to Heinlein’s novel. Which sounds promising. Lefty heads will explode.
I’m believe that the scope and subtlety of the novel could only best be served, on screen, as a twenty-odd part teleseries.
But, here we go, and I expect the movie to shine.
Only question is, who in this generation could pick up the untouchable Carmen, as left by Denise Richards, thirty years ago?
I really liked the casting by Verhoeven, especially Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown and the gorgeous Ms Richards.
Didn’t mind the flavour of that movie either, Verhoeven was trying to be satirical but the sheer alienness, and energy of his bugs made it a pretty good space opera. Shallow though, but hey that’s Hollywood.
Heinlein was very conservative I believe.
Went a bit weird on sexual issues in his later years.
Yeh, he definitely had a little bit of an Oedipus hang-up… but, it wasn’t his only wild idea.
And remember, at least he never advocate that girls be sent to the front line to be bonked in tents and dismembered by bugs.
Instead they piloted the space ships.
Allegedly a LOT earlier than that but kept very quiet. He was with the mob from Caltech who hung out with Jack Parsons, L.Ron Hubbard etc and dabbled in the occult around 1939 – 1940.
Happens to the best of us.
Hollywood didn’t like Heinlein’s idea for this novel that the franchise is only earned by providing service, be it military or some other service to the people at large.
hence Verhoeven portrayed the story as fascist. Can’t see that in the novel myself.
but…
would you like to learn more?
And Dina Meyer. Oh and Denise Richards doing her usual acting.
Dina Meyer and Denise Richards.
Yum.
Who really cares?
I think he was a full on lefty when young, even stood for office iirc.
I think WW2 changed him, then the cold war saw him on the side of the West big time.
Heinlein went a bit nuts with the liberation of literature and his emergence as an SF superstar.
His later novels are full of sexual freedom for himself as personified by the Heinlein Hero, a rough tough fighting machine (of either sex) who was able to cope with all of the universe’s challenges.
Got a bit tiresome IMHO.
So, the Houthis are so expert apparently one of their missiles landed on a town in Egypt. 😛
“Hello darkness, my old friend”
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=1bd437fe82&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-f:1826801215913478567&th=195a1a06edc649a7&view=fimg&fur=ip&permmsgid=msg-f:1826801215913478567&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ_axCB2yyDLlTmnNgakD4Y0mPgHQuR5M2YXrC5WZgeGHLtKjE_3OaHBqq8qqWdAcppJIVBawveaNxXfWV4q7VZ1XU0qFCDd4oQVGFfW8n2tTrKcQXfdZEbCzoI&disp=emb&zw
Link not working.
It’s Bwitish.
You’ll have to put a penny in.
It’s old Irish. You will need a punt you punter. A Euro won’t work.
Whoops.
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.DYDrKcva6aWO9jzTdIU22AAAAA&pid=Api&rs=1&c=1&qlt=95&w=55&h=115
Why does a group devoted to sterilizing kids and mutilating people have a tax exempt status?
https://wpath.org/donate-home/
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is dedicated to promoting evidence based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transgender health. WPATH is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, interdisciplinary professional and educational organization.
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January 28, 2025 We are disappointed with this latest executive order. Policies that restrict or ban access to necessary medical care for transgender youth are harmful to patients and their families. Transgender youth need comprehensive, individualized, family-based care from multidisciplinary teams. Healthcare decisions should be made by patients, families, and their healthcare professionals, guided by evidence-based practices, clinical guidelines, and individual needs rather than government mandates. Asa Radix, MD, PhD, MPH WPATH President
A truly evil organisation.
Does this mean that taking action behind the family’s backs is unethical? If so, WPATH needs to start suing some educational organisations.
French MEP demands the US ‘give us back the Statue of Liberty|France24’
Trump should say “only if you rebuild the 500 churches burnt in France in the last ten years.”
After you give your country back to Germany.
Or, at the least, give the province of Lorraine back.
A gift is a gift you Frogs.
How about the USA and the Allies send you the Bill for saving your arses in two World Wars.
Give us back the 19,000 American GIs who gave their lives for your liberty.
Can’t do that? Then peese erf.
A lot more than 19,000.
I was being careful. Figures vary. Let’s just say the Frergs are being ridiculous here.
Unconfirmed report that US struck the Galaxy Leader.
Stacy Abrams? Say it ain’t so!
She shouldn’t’ve taken that $2 billion of Biden funny money.
If this isnt a forgery then shit just got really, really real.
https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1901492986447569087/photo/1
Trump voiding the Biden pardons.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The “Pardons” that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect
Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby
declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT,
because of the fact that they were done by Autopen. In other
words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he
did not know anything about them! The necessary Pardoning
Documents were not explained to, or approved by, Biden. He
knew nothing about them, and the people that did may have
committed a crime. Therefore, those on the Unselect
Committee, who destroyed and deleted ALL evidence obtained
during their two year Witch Hunt of me, and many other
innocent people, should fully understand that they are
subject to investigation at the highest level. The fact is,
they were probably responsible for the Documents that were
signed on their behalf without the knowledge or consent of
the Worst President in the History of our Country, Crooked
Joe Biden!
Bush and Obama also used autopens so I don’t think this is an offence (or negatable) as much as DJT wants it to be.
(However, I don’t believe {??} it’s ever been tested in any court or by congress)
This is why I’m moving to US.
A rando on X mentioned the discovery phase of any legal proceedings could be very, very instructive with regards to who controlled the autopen.
To those who espouse washing clothes every time if they have been worn.
I must disagree.
Obviously, clothes that are sweaty or dirty need to be washed after use. But, washing something simply because it has been worn once, irrespective of the circumstances, is not only wasteful and destructive of the item in question, it perhaps hints at some sort of self-loathing for the body.
Why on earth would you wash a sweatshirt that has been worn over a T shirt for 8-10 hours, mostly indoors?
As for jeans or other trousers, unless you are going commando or wearing them while fixing machinery, they get washed when they are dirty or whiffy, not just because they have been worn.
The availability of washing machines has greatly distorted behaviour around clothes washing, not to mention the relative cheapness of new clothes.
Wash soiled* garments. This is not a difficult concept.
Also, hang stuff you don’t want faded inside out on the line. Even if you’re using the dryer – inside out. The pockets dry faster.
And be grateful that you’re not using a washboard, a copper and a mangle.
*sniff them, examine them, when in doubt…wash them. Be aware that all sorts of parasites and pathogens hitch a ride on your clothes.
Hi Armadillo!
Underarm deodorant is killing the planet!
(Ok I just made that up. But hey the story was about gym togs not every day clothes. Phew.)
French MEP demands the US ‘give us back the Statue of Liberty|France24’
It would make a fine artificial reef …..just kidding. Just tell the frog to f*ck off.
Excellence. It has to said ( not all ) modern music is sh*t.
I still can’t believe I watched a brief clip with a packed out stadium watching Taylor Swift. All I could do was laugh.
Little River Band – Reminiscing (Film CLIP) 1978
This is going to get really ugly for the ‘pardonees’ if SCOTUS sides with the administration. Hiden can say he was present, but why then the need for an auto-pen?
A bit of precedence here that I discovered:
In 2011, President Barack Obama authorized the use of an autopen to sign a bill into law while he was overseas.
U.S. v. Wilson (1833) – Pardon Case
Ex parte Garland (1867) – Pardon Case
That explains the wording of Trump’s comment. How can a presidential pardon be valid if the president himself did not grant it, irrespective of the method of signing.
The point is he authorised it.
If there is no evidence of authorisation, the use could be viewed as bogus.
This opens up a magnificent can of juicy worms.
The point is the old corpse was Non compos mentis. We know he was because the Special Counsel, Robert Sur, refused to prosecute the old bastard because he was not up to it. Ergo the old bastard could not sign documents or delegate their signing. This is game set and match. Irony of the highest order.
Winston. Any updates on lady dog?
Said with 100% respect.
CommSec account- check.
International platform- check.
Greenbacks loaded- check.
Buy order for TSLA- check.
Here we go. Knowing my luck, the whole company will get petrolbombed.
Next wunderkind to cop the Dali Touch Of Death- Bitcoin… stay tuned.
Actually I don’t quite know how I’m going to pull this off yet, both oz banks I have acc with have bulldozed through terms which have stated that they will not brook any transactions that have anything to do with cryptocurrency.
I just settled into my alternative to Chris Kenny on Sky (a lazy sod who has never broken a story even though he calls himself a journalist).
I’m watching a documentary on one of the world’s great train journeys – the Pacific Surfliner from San Diego to San Luis north of LA, along 560 kms of a very pretty and famous coastline.
Alas, a middle-aged female zombie informs me that coastal erosion threatens the future of the Surfliner service because of “climate change”.
Um, sweetie, every ocean coastline in the world is constantly shifting as a result of erosion. The climate has little to do with it, but atheist zealots insist erosion is a recent invention, so it must be inserted into the animist religion that belongs exclusively to severely educated former Christians in the West.
The Surfliner is a marvelous service that’s in no danger – even from the loons who live in California.
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Dutton pledges up to $35m to rebuild Adass Israel synagogue
Peter Dutton has pledged a Coalition government would provide funding up to $35m to support reconstruction of the Adass Israel Synagogue of Melbourne that was victim to apparent anti-Semitic arson late last year.
Anthony Albanese previously reportedly promised federal funding to aid in the reconstruction.
Standing at the site of the burnt-down synagogue, the Opposition Leader said he wanted to “bring it back to life much bigger and better than what it was, and that is a symbolic response to those people who have hate in their hearts”.
“Anti-Semitism is not just an issue for the Jewish community, it is an issue for every Australian, and we have spoken with a very strong consistent voice, and we always will, in words of condemnation to those who would seek to attack, to do harm, to kill, to murder people from the Jewish community,” he said.
Any of the bush lawyers on this blog help out? Would the synagogue have been insured, and would insurance cover an act of terrorism?
WATCH: Jew CANCELLED by hate mob over sarcastic post
Earlier today (9.15am) I posted a summary of an article on the ABC website written by Alan Kohler in which there was a significant shift in narrative and admission (albeit from a commissioned writer) that the net zero target might not be as achievable as previously espoused by Labor and the Greens, followed by lots of conflicting filler. Other posters also noted the contradictions (Dr Faustus and Bruce from Newcastle and others) and Lizzie picked up on my interpretation of Kohler’s role as a bellwether primer.
It is only now I realize that what was niggling at me, is that Labor maybe now contemplating a significant policy shift on net zero.
Think of it this way, if Labor now back peddles on net zero, blaming Trump for putting it off course, where will it leave Dutton? And what will Labor lose? All Labor needs to say is that we are realists. We understand that Trump has derailed net zero but we will work with all Australians to insure that our country is resilient to the impacts of climate change. This switch is now a real possibility. Are Dutton and the Libs ready for it ?
I didn’t comment about Kohler’s article but I was wondering if he has been talking with his fellow ABC colleague Chris Uhlmann lately. Chris has lately been scoffing red pills quite amazingly.
Probably not ready.
It’s an interesting thought mem; worth merit.
But I think the one potential “blockage” to your idea is you forget it’s a religion with a faith that cannot be shaken nor questioned.
I dont think they would do it for the simple reason their industry funds will be up to their guts in sweet, sweet guaranteed renew-balls returns.
https://www.cbussuper.com.au/about-us/news/media-release/investments-in-built-environment-innovation-and-solar-energy
https://www.inpex.com.au/news-and-updates/media-centre/media-releases/inpex-renewable-energy-joint-venture-in-australia-acquires-asset-portfolio/
At the least they would have to give them a couple of years to weasel the worst assetts away.
Mark Carney’s PLAN to TANK the US Dollar
Gutsy call for a PM who is not even in Parliament.
This bloke is a very very dangerous thug. Just ask Liz Truss.
How can Australia be rid of the Miserable Ghost?
He’s at it again, this time over AUKUS.
If the Libs put up a Go Find Me page to pay the creature out, I’d donate.
I suspect he is very unhappy that Trump is laying waste to his pet cause de jour of climate rubbish.
FMD. Peta Credlin is a no-show — again — for her 6pm slot on Sky News, replaced by Australian TV’s most boring man, Adelaide nerd Caleb Bond.
A big up yours to the audience from Sky News management. I’m off somewhere else
Pull your finger out, Paul “Boris: Whittaker (Sky CEO) — there is ZERO reason to watch your channel if your lazy “stars” don’t turn up.
Watters, Gutfeld and the Five are good.
@realMaalouf
So 3 Muslims in Wales kidnapped a Jewish man, tied him to a radiator, and brutally beat and tortured him.
They intended to kill him, but he survived only because he managed to escape.
Can you imagine the global outrage if the opposite happened? Why is the media silent?
*Yawn* Please, it’s not like they did something really serious like pick up a baby wombat off the road-side.
@MikeBenzCyber
The “Media Literacy” scam is accelerating way too fast & it has to be stopped NOW.
Here’s why:
@MikeBenzCyber
Instructive that the censorship ringleader at the FBI was using the “media literacy” censorship predicate — the idea that if you don’t read the right media sources (i.e., Blob-approved propaganda outlets), you’re deemed media illiterate and need to get your mind right
Wales is a disgusting little place.
Charles was Prince of Wales for over 64 years.
Memo to Windsors (a) never name your sons Charles and (b) never make them Prince of Wales.
Newsela: The ‘Media Literacy’ Provider Active in 90 Percent of American Schools
Gave us TLS too.
@RealStevefriend
Elvis Chan told social media companies to censor @mirandadevine’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. He is still an Assistant Special Agent in Charge for @FBISanFrancisco.
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Wiradjuri man invokes ‘illegitimate’ 200-year-old grants in fight over university property
He’s claiming the lands are Wiradjuri sovereign lands. Let’s see you defend that sovereignty.
The left will do it for him.
Trump’s apparent sanguinity in the face of the judicial coup is surprising and confusing.
Obviously the criminality must stop or his whole term will be made ineffective by what is a tinpot tactic that should not survive scrutiny.
But there is no hint of a strategy emerging which is surprising given his counsellor Habba is a ballbreaker.
Perhaps they are afraid of the Barret risk, but arguably even someone as corrupt as her would baulk at bringing on a crisis that the Surpreme Court would inevitably lose. Or perhaps not if the dems can cheat a majority in the House, a judgrment would not be overgurned and Trump’s whole term could be negated.
Obviously, obstruction to completely negate Trump’ term is the strategy. But as Gingrich suggested, Trump should not tie himself up by going to the Supreme Court. Just ignore the judges and force the Dems to make the running. Sounds smart.
Federal district courts aren’t even mentioned in the US Constitution.
Mark Levin was red hot on the subject — judicial tyranny — today on Fox News.
Congress has the power to:
a) impeach activist judges.
b) abolish their jurisdictions.
GOP senators and Congressmen need to get off their arses and start cracking down on partisan wannabe politicians in the judiciary trying to usurp the executive branch of government.
That’s what he’s doing:
Trump admin defies judge’s order to block Tren de Aragua deportation flights to El Salvador: ‘Headed to the Supreme Court’
Dutch NO EU Vote Is Instantly IGNORED
Rice Bran Oil, lovely lady.
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calli
March 17, 2025 3:50 pm
Reply to Vicki
Ditto. The other oils I use for cooking are coconut oil (high smoke point) and butter.
JC
March 17, 2025 5:35 pm
This is going to get really ugly for the ‘pardonees’ if SCOTUS sides with the administration. Hiden can say he was present, but why then the need for an auto-pen?
The point is the old corpse was Non compos mentis. We know he was because the Special Counsel, Robert Sur, refused to prosecute the old bastard because he was not up to it. Ergo the old bastard could not sign documents or delegate their signing. This is game set and match. Irony of the highest order.?
Re evil ‘seed oils’.
Reply to Eyrie
So how do Japanese and Scandinavians (to name just a couple of examples) manage to live so long?
Over the years, we have been told that everything from sugar, salt, animal fats, carbs, to the latest bogey, seed oils, are killing us. Yet, overall, people keep living longer.
Me, I am with Yogi Bear. An apple pie is much more attractive than foraging for nuts and berries.
The endless search for the magic bullet food poison du jour is wildly unscientific, but makes a lot of money for food entrepreneurs. Superfoods, anyone?
That huckster, Maggie Beer (who happens to sell olive oil) advocates using it for everything, including frying chips. That’s all very well if money is no object, plus the best temperature for good chips is more like that of peanut oil, or even safflower oil.
As I have said before, dietary ‘science’ is rivalled only by astrology.